Generally speaking, incubation is to nurture a community to adopting the Apache Way. This includes self governance, community growth and licensing policies.
We generally expect some kind of backing community to bring this to. We have seen pretty consistently that starting from an empty community doesn't work. It doesn't mean that it's impossible, but very hard to do. John On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 3:07 PM Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Looking back through the discussion, it is a bit of a problem that one of > > the major reasons given for the fork is that the team thought that they > > didn't have a large enough PMC and that incubation wouldn't get them > enough > > additional contributors. That made it seem like the project should go > > forward without meeting Apache requirements (i.e. outside). > > > > Is the situation really that different now that a vastly diminished team > is > > likely to benefit from incubation enough to form a viable TLP? > > > > (I hate that this sounds negative ... it is a real question) > > We can't tell you. It is just, that some of us (including me) have the > feeling/opinion, that going through the Incubator is the path, where > the chances are best to attract new committers. > > Jochen > > > -- > The next time you hear: "Don't reinvent the wheel!" > > > http://www.keystonedevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/evolution-of-the-wheel-300x85.jpg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
